Although facial recognition technology provides a plethora of benefits to producers, this technology can eventually be deemed illegal; Illinois and Texas already have laws that act against this use of technology.

Alongside American claims that Huawei’s technology poses the threat of insidious surveillance, Huawei is feared by American policymakers because its dominance over 5G would allow China to essentially supersede Silicon Valley as the world’s tech hub.

What the law, in the US at least, assures is that third party data hosting services must adhere to a baseline for security, in short requiring some form of protection on data that is not very well defined.